What will the data center migrate to the sea?

Google's spirit of innovation is just as innate. Google's innovative patents can always be heavy-colored, from proprietary technologies in Belgium's air-conditioned data centers to the cooling of cloud computing data centers. In fact, in addition to the IDs of Dataship, Google has also proposed a similar patent "water-based Datacenter", has been predicted that the data center once made will become its search engine hub.

▲google Marine Data Center

The "water-based Datacenter" will be located 3 to 7 miles off the coast, at sea between 50 and 70 metres. If sufficiently perfect, this method can be used to build 40 trillion data centers without the need for real estate or property taxes.

"Water-based Datacenter" will rely on seawater and tidal power generation, while using the flow of seawater, the data center of the machine cooling. The data center is set up on one or more ships docked on water, gathering energy through natural flow movements, converting it into electricity for use in data centers, or providing cooling water pumps for cooling data centers.

Google believes that such data centers are easy to install, can be transferred at any time, and the use of clean energy, will not cause any pollution of the environment.

The Google Offshore data center is based on a marine power pump cooling system and seawater to a freshwater heat exchanger. The data center can be used in conjunction with a computer in a standard container to make it lighter (for example, to be hauled to a ship or truck). Data centers can be located in areas with low modular construction costs and may be transported to locations where communication guarantees are relatively fast.

The data center can be unloaded to a more permanent location, or it can be connected to these unloaded locations, such as power machines, ships can be deployed to another area. In addition, the data center, in the form of shipping containers, can quickly trade and meet technological changes. Modularization also makes maintenance simple, salty water environment to make hardware corrosion or wear, can conveniently through the exchange of containers for hardware replacement.

Google says data center containers can stack two or more heights so that each data ship can place "12 or more" containers.

Google's patent mentions that the data center will be set to 3 to 7 miles away, which could indicate that Google is in the range of land based data center connections beyond the distance of the submarine cable. Because the offshore data centers will include power and cooling, they still need industrial strength to support them. Google also said it would find a partner with 5 other companies with undersea communications cables across the Pacific Ocean, which could provide high-speed data connections to the new Google Asia Data center.

Google said it would use signals such as flashing lights, sign mechanism, horn, reminders of its presence and other ships in the data center location. And Google has chosen a different location from IDs, which plans to set up 50 data centers to dock in major cities.

Google Offshore Data Center system composition

Google Offshore Data Center system composition

System Structure and requirements:

System composition:

The complex number of the computer data centre near and including the unit of calculation of the water body, the complex number of the electronic generator and the unit of calculation on the electrically connected sea, and the plural of the unit of calculation for a cooling or more seawater cooling unit.

System Requirements:

。 The unit of calculation is mounted on a crane with a movable plurality of modules.

。 The marine-based generator includes a wave-generator system.

。 A marine-based generator consists of a grid machine arranged on a plurality of kinetic forces to compute the complex number.

。 A wave-driven generator system consists of one or more units of wave power generating device machines.

。 The Marine base generator includes a tidal generator system.

。 A plurality of cooling marine power pumps and one or more seawater heat exchangers for fresh water.

。 The generator consists of one or more electrical power, making the power supply rectifier directly available for work.

。 Further to form a plurality of transformers, the step-down conversion DC supply voltage is calculated by the unit.

。 A marine-based generator consists of one or more wind turbines.

。 One or more of these wind turbines provide pumping power to cool seawater.

。 There is a data center platform to supplement the chiller cooling system to provide additional cooling.

。 The computer data center includes a data center that is installed on a floating platform.

。 Power generation uses waves, tides, flow movements, or adjacent data centers to provide electricity;

。 The data center cools the data center device by adding hot water adjacent to the heat exchanger.

。 Data center devices include a plurality of large computer mounting boards in a rack array.

In patented technology, Google has also elaborated on the principles of seawater power generation and the establishment of a water-cooled system for machines. Under Google's plan, Google will park its ships 7 miles (about 11.2 kilometers) from the coast and deploy enough supercomputers to support its Internet search engine.

From the Google Offshore data center system requirements we can see that they did a lot of effort, a lot of technical aspects of things have been more thorough, but also captured the traditional data center of some disadvantages, this as an entry point is believed to be more attractive to some partners. In addition, there are reports that IBM, Dell and Hewlett-Packard are also considering ships as a space vehicle for data centers.